Dismissing genocide accusations as rhetorical serves dominant racial interests

Evidence

Aggrieved populations frequently use cries of genocide in attempting to secure larger audiences for protests regarding everyday racism and racializing practices. If scholars of race and ethnicity disconnect the two phenomena by deeming such accusations simply unimportant or illegitimate, they run the risk of placing themselves on the side of racial states and dominant sectors of populations, and at the same time they may miss the epistemological value of the situated theorizing from which such protests can emerge. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 251

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to standpoint epistemology and situated knowledge claims — the same epistemic privilege argument found in feminist science studies.